SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 10 24
Rank change year-on-year -12 +14 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL 74 58 63
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.91% 10.28% 5.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.85% 31.52% 23.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 47 44
10th Percentile £312 £353 £329
25th Percentile £400 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £469
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -14.67% -1.32%
75th Percentile £538 £505 £596
90th Percentile £590 £657 £650
South West median daily rate £475 £475 £538
% change year-on-year - -11.63% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £27.13 -
South West median hourly rate £74.68 £27.13 -
% change year-on-year +175.32% - -

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 355 184 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.35% 32.62% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 103 145
10th Percentile £350 £343 £300
25th Percentile £413 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -4.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £524 £550
90th Percentile £633 £616 £638
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 48 79
10th Percentile £60.00 £61.25 £52.50
25th Percentile - £65.00 £64.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% -5.00% +6.87%
75th Percentile £67.88 £68.00 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £67.25
% change year-on-year -2.26% -1.12% +3.46%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.05%) Apache
2 3 (4.05%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (1.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (13.51%) NEC Housing
2 4 (5.41%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.03%) Azure
2 13 (17.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 13 (17.57%) Power Platform
3 9 (12.16%) GCP
4 7 (9.46%) AWS
5 6 (8.11%) GitHub
6 5 (6.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (6.76%) SaaS
6 5 (6.76%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.70%) dbt
8 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.70%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (2.70%) IaaS
9 1 (1.35%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.35%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.35%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.05%) Firewall
2 2 (2.70%) 3GPP
2 2 (2.70%) 4G
2 2 (2.70%) 5G
2 2 (2.70%) 5G NR
2 2 (2.70%) DNS
2 2 (2.70%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.70%) LTE
2 2 (2.70%) Microwave Backhaul
2 2 (2.70%) MPLS
2 2 (2.70%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (2.70%) VoLTE
2 2 (2.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.22%) Power BI
2 8 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.76%) Delta Lake
5 4 (5.41%) Tableau
6 3 (4.05%) BigQuery
6 3 (4.05%) Neo4j
6 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.05%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.70%) Metadata
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.35%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.35%) Looker
8 1 (1.35%) Power Query
8 1 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Git
2 6 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.70%) JIRA
3 2 (2.70%) Liquibase
3 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.35%) GitLab
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle APEX
General
1 16 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (21.62%) Finance
2 15 (20.27%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.51%) Local Government
4 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.05%) Marketing
6 1 (1.35%) Billing
6 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Legal
6 1 (1.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (21.62%) Data Engineer
1 16 (21.62%) Senior
2 12 (16.22%) Analyst
3 11 (14.86%) Applications Support
3 11 (14.86%) Developer
4 10 (13.51%) Support Officer
5 9 (12.16%) Senior Applications Support
6 5 (6.76%) Application Security Analyst
6 5 (6.76%) Data Analyst
6 5 (6.76%) Security Analyst
6 5 (6.76%) SQL Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) Azure Data Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Data Migration Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Integration Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) REST
2 4 (5.41%) JDBC
2 4 (5.41%) JSON
2 4 (5.41%) Middleware
2 4 (5.41%) SOAP
2 4 (5.41%) XML
3 3 (4.05%) Kafka
3 3 (4.05%) PySpark
3 3 (4.05%) RESTful
4 2 (2.70%) JAX-RS
4 2 (2.70%) Pandas
4 2 (2.70%) React
4 2 (2.70%) Spring
4 2 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.70%) Web Services
5 1 (1.35%) .NET
5 1 (1.35%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.35%) JPA
5 1 (1.35%) OAuth
5 1 (1.35%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.46%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (9.46%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.41%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
2 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.73%) Analytics
2 20 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (25.68%) Data Modelling
4 17 (22.97%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (22.97%) Data Engineering
5 15 (20.27%) Agile
6 13 (17.57%) Data Pipeline
6 13 (17.57%) DevOps
7 11 (14.86%) CI/CD
7 11 (14.86%) Decision-Making
8 10 (13.51%) Data Security
8 10 (13.51%) ETL
9 9 (12.16%) Application Security
10 8 (10.81%) Validation
11 7 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (9.46%) Customer Service
11 7 (9.46%) Data Governance
11 7 (9.46%) Data Protection
11 7 (9.46%) Data Science
12 6 (8.11%) AI
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.08%) Python
2 9 (12.16%) Java
3 3 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (4.05%) PL/SQL
3 3 (4.05%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.70%) C
4 2 (2.70%) Go
4 2 (2.70%) R
5 1 (1.35%) C#
5 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.76%) Degree
4 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (33.78%) Data Quality
2 14 (18.92%) GDPR
3 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.70%) QA
4 1 (1.35%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (5.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.11%) Terraform
2 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.35%) Ansible
3 1 (1.35%) CASB
3 1 (1.35%) Grafana
3 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (16.22%) Databricks
2 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.51%) NEC
3 7 (9.46%) Oracle
4 5 (6.76%) Google
5 4 (5.41%) webMethods
6 3 (4.05%) IBM
7 1 (1.35%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.35%) Amplitude
7 1 (1.35%) Braze
7 1 (1.35%) Facebook
7 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.35%) SAP